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Appeal Process Moving Forward for Federal Stem Cell Funding Suit
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Appeal Process Moving Forward for Federal Stem Cell Funding Suit

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by on Jan 05, 2012 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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In 2009 two researchers filed a lawsuit claiming that new National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines easing restrictions on human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research are a violation the Dicky-Wicker Amendment, a budgetary amendment prohibiting federal tax dollars from being used to create or destroy human embryos for scientific research. In August 2010, district court […]